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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Success

Mark 4: 21-25
"The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you, and still more will be given to you.To the one who has, more will be given; from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

What goes around ,comes around. Karma. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. To be successful, work hard. 
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.If you don't at least try, you will not succeed.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

New Art - Blue Harpman


My latest piece - Blue Harpman - 24" x 34" - Acrylic - also available on note cards.


Migration

“The Migration”

Awesome it is –
a movement monumental –
fleeing oppression,
fleeing violence,
fleeing homeland
     and culture comfort.

Why?

We see the injustice
laying on the surface
like oil on water.
But that is what we see
with our eyes.

There is more –
Ask them what they see
with the eyes of their spirit ---
Perhaps they sense it,
perhaps not.

But there is something more---
They are moving
the best of their culture
to preserve it,
even if it appears
as oil on water,
or beans growing
among the corn.

Can you sense it?
It is coming ---
A great change.

And these souls,
fearful of merely
losing their lives,
are saving a Life
worth living.

For no more shall their homeland be –
Soon – just a hole in the earth
so big,
our eyes in space
will see it clearly
from their far-off balcony,
so high above
our blue home.

What will survive?
How shall we live?
Who will establish –
--- a new culture?
--- a new Life?
--- a new God?


agd 1.26.2016

Monday, January 25, 2016

Blizzard's Progress

Blizzard’s Progress

Swaddled in frozen white,
Sparkling in the sunlight,

The silence is welcome,
The feeling is wholesome.

Warmed,
   Fed,
      Rested.

A short hibernation
Before scurrying to my station,

Sounding the fife
In the continuing project of Life.

Sela.

agd 1.25.2016

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Blizzard 2016 - White Quietude

White Quietude

It’s a blizzard out there!
But in here,
thankfully,
warmth and safety.

It’s quiet in here,
so silent
when all the
house functions cease,
save for occasional creaks.

It’s quiet in here,
save for the T-drone in my head
and my beating heart.

It’s quiet in here,
and out there, too –
It’s a beautiful, flaking,
blowing, blanketing,
white on whte
crippling blizzard.

Stay home,
and enjoy the silence.


agd 1.23.2016 Blizzard – really.

 Even St. Francis has his hood on!!

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Why pray?

So, do you understand what "prayer" is?
It is not talking to some unseen being who you think is waiting on your word and judging your words and whether they are worthy of a response.
True prayer, even though it might be preceded by formula prayers, mantras, etc., is a means of connecting with that which IS - that which is Life - the Force, if you will (sometimes new terms make more sense than old concretized concepts). It is connecting with that to which you and I and all of creation are connected. I like to use the image of the Allium flower - hundreds of florets attached to the center orb - everything "material" is connected to the Source, or else it would not exist.
Religion is supposed to teach us how to re-connect to that Source, not be cow-towing to some mysterious, ethereal judging power or "god-person". That power is in you. That power is you. Connecting more intimately with that power gives the individual a handle on reality - it leads to the realization that all things are connected.
These comments are a response to something I read one "minister" comment on the changing perspectives in religious attitudes - "Most prayers invoke a god that doesn’t act in that way, yet I am still called to pray.”
Again, prayer is not to a "god" - a mysterious being who holds our destiny. Prayer is connecting with the Life which creates and animates this amazing universe on all its levels. And as we deepen that connection within ourselves, we cannot help but become aware of the connection all of life has to that Life at the center of everything. Everything is connected. 
Prayer (connecting to the Absolute) leads to developing those sacred attributes most faith-filled souls aspire to: compassion and love. Practicing love and compassion reconnect us to one another and change lives. As more souls learn to love, it is like lighting more candles in the darkness, and that light grows more brightly, and is seen by more souls who become en"light"ened, adding to the brilliance, and so on.
So, pray. Pray every day - learn to pray always - stay connected with your Source, and your love will radiate and transform the world in which you are walking.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

It's Trans, you say?

It’s Trans, you say?

His wrapping is male,
but not her soul.

His physical gender
thrusts outward,
her astral draws inward.

Years of surging urge
shook his life,
so little understood by so many –
so easy for her to hide.

Past lives sensed –
some bearing new life,
serving the home,
pleasuring and
being pleasured
in pinafore and gown,
warm wraps,
hair combs and perfumes.

Other lives of challenging strength,
leading and protecting,
guiding, building,
hunting, plowing, siring.

And the gamut of “gender”
is layered within me –
no need to choose –
I am all of that,
no matter if wrapped
as male or female.
I am all of that,
and I will live it.

How to live
the androgynous life
takes a lifetime to learn.

But this is only one,
chosen in spirit ---
yes -- chosen – by me.

So live it, learn it, and grow.
Choose wisely next time,
and …. remember.


agd - Jan. 2016

New Snow

Frosty chill today,
Light snow sparkles in the grass,
The cat still explores.


agd 1.13.2016